Author: Rebecca Mir

Guns, Germs, and Horses: Cultural Exchange in Sid Meier’s Colonization

On: March 13, 2012

In preparation for a book chapter on Colonization we thought we would take the opportunity to blog through and invite a broader discussion of some of the ideas that we hope to engage with in that chapter. This is the second in a series of post which we will co-write.Continue Reading

if (!isNative()){return false;}: De-People-ing Native Peoples in Sid Meier’s Colonization

By: Rebecca Mir

On: March 1, 2012

In: Articles

In a previous post I asked if the game Colonization was offensive enough. That post explored my own experience playing the game as a way to think through what the game means and what it says. As a result of that post, Rebecca Mir, an M.A. candidate at Bard GraduateContinue Reading